Taking and Giving

“Give, and it will be given to you.

A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over,

will be poured into your lap.

For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

Luke 6:38

 

 

Who do you take from and who do you give too?

Takers and givers – the answer to that question can make all the difference.

Do people avoid you because any interaction with you always wears them out?

Never mind answering that because most people who are always taking seldom recognize it.

Do people seek you out because you are a giving person?

Of course, I am speaking of giving in a much greater sense than material things.

The person who has learned to sit in God’s presence and receive from Him (yes, it’s o.k. to be a ‘taker’ there!) is then positioned, out of that abundance, to pour into others.

Imagine if we all took that time!

How different might it be when we come together for fellowship?

How different might it be when the person who does not know Christ is brought into your life that God might use you to pour His love into them?

Do you approach any, or even all, interactions with others by asking – God, how can you enrich this person through my life and my words?

What can I do to be a blessing to them today?

How can I give to them?

Here’s a wonderful secret:

As you do, the biblical principal of sowing and reaping is applied and what you give comes back to you in so many wonderful ways.

The blog today opened with this question – Who do you take from and who do you give too?

Learn to take from God in order to give to others.

Take all that He wants to pour into you.

It never diminishes Him!

Those around you will be blessed for it.